As much as I hate to admit it, yes. That’s 30 years ago now.
Think of it like this… If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
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Movies from 1955 were old in 1985, so movies from 1995 are old now.
NO SHUT UP THE 90S WERE TEN YEARS AGO
“TELL ME! WHO’S PRESIDENT IN 2025 - DONALD TRUMP??!?!”
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In 1995 I considered movies from 1965 old. So, yes.
30 years is pretty old for a movie.
Yeah, 30 years is, but he said 1995… Wait, no no no no no no no
It’s only old if you’ve seen it before. The movie could be 100+ years old, but if you’ve never seen it before, it’s still totally new to you.
I have a 1969 truck. If you haven’t driven it before, is it new?
you buy a used truck.
what do you tell your friends you did? thats right you got a new truck.
“I thought you bought a new truck?”
My friend’s, probably.
yes, a sick '69 F150, with 10k original kms on it.
yes, it’s now a cybertruck
New to me, yes.
Also, don’t ask what the actual first vehicle I ever drove was, but it wasn’t much newer than that.
I don’t think this is what Einstein had in mind when he spoke of relativity.
‘old’ and ‘unknown to me’ aren’t the same thing and never were. When someone says they’re into ‘old movies’, they never mean that they like rewatching movies from the 2020s.
Then please define exactly what NOS means?
New Old Stock. Yes, NOS is a thing, literally old stuff still in the original box, unopened, never used.
Shit, you got any idea how much money Biff got for his OG unopened box set copy of Back To The Future?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dsIcCtylbUw
Just because a thing was made ages ago doesn’t necessarily mean it’s ever even been used/viewed/played or whatever.
And Biff wasn’t stupid, he learned from the very movie he played in.
That’s just not what “old” or “new” mean for media. You could maybe make that argument if the movie was made a long time ago but only released now, but that’s a very rare case. The public has already consumed the media, if it was somewhat popular you might be aware of what people thought about it before you even watch it for the first time, and if it was influential it might even interact with younger movies, possibly leading to you thinking that certain elements of it are overdone or old hat when this might actually have been one of the first works to have used these elements.
On top of that, the general societal context is not that of today, but of when the movie was made - few works are so timeless that this doesn’t matter at all.
Try watching Pink Flamingos
If you’ve anything like the audience of the time it came out, you’ll almost certainly turn it off within about 10 to 15 minutes.
But it’ll likely be new to you.
Highly not recommended…
I’m watching the original “twilight zone” made in the 60s. This is an old show, that is new to me.
It’s not a new show to everyone. It’s an old show that was made and released many years ago.
I have been working through my “must watch” list with my teenage daughter recently. While all the movies are absolutely new to her, that hasn’t stopped the occasional snickering about how “old” some of the stuff is. (And honestly, I can’t disagree. I had a few “ah fuck I’m old” moments rewatching Predator and Blade Runner recently.)
So, in spirit, I 100% agree with you. In reality, nobody can quite escape how old some movies actually feel.
I wanted to watch the OG Nosferatu before the new one, my wife could not stop laughing.
“No! This serious horror movie!”
(snort)
[OT: watch “Shadow of the Vampire” after watching the OG Nosferatu.]
I watched the Third Man next which was fascinating. Lots of similar shadow use.
Did you know that Charlie Chaplain actually made a movie with audio? Watch how something that’s actually so old somehow becomes new to you…
Sorry, I couldn’t quite get the feeling you described. It’s partially because I have seen that before and partially because it still looks old and the sound quality was reminiscent of a cylinder phonograph.
Good try though. ;)
Hah, interesting that you’ve seen that before, cool cool 👍
As crappy as the audio is, honestly it’s still pretty good for when it was made.
I actually like the audio. (I’ll leverage faux tape recording effects and plate reverb on occasion with music I write.)
And honestly, it was kinda refreshing to watch Charlie Chaplain again.
i am over 30 and I consider a movie from 1995 old.
they were still cutting cropped vhs in 1995.
1995 was 30 years ago.
In 1995, 30 year old movies would have been made in 1965, and in the 90s we would have absolutely considered movies made in the 60s to be “old”.
So, I’d say yes, movies made in 1995 could be considered old.I thing you got your math wrong. See, it’s 2025 and … Oh NO
Haha 2025?! It’s 2015, i just checked me calendar and … Oh NO
The plot of Austin Powers revolves around thawing a man who has been frozen for 30 years, from 1967 to 1997. Only 2 years to go before we reach 30 years from that movie’s release.
If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
And you just know that Hollywood is waiting for that one guy to die so that they can reboot this. Instead of just making an original nostalgia-driven time traveling movie.
Absolutely. It’s from the time when families used to share a single phone! That they glued to the wall!!
Meanwhile in 2025, I’m deciding if I need to wall mount my bidet remote for “anti theft” purposes
Red Hot Chili Peppers is now considered “classic rock”
Oofh. Oh yeah, that one hurts.
Time is a bitch. I disapprove of the whole concept.
Time is relative. A 5 year old piece of software is ancient. A 100 year old stone church is very recent. If you find a stone axe that isn’t at least 10 000 years old, you can toss it back where you found it.
In before Muzak version of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. :)
In the year 2000 I definitely would have thought something from 1970 was old.
Ah yes, in the year 2000…
(a gag that’s already a quarter-century old!)
Shit, the nes felt old and that was only 15 then
Funny, in my 30s I didn’t feel old 😄
Predator is from 1987; that’s a classic.
Really depends on your age, I guess. For me, anything made in 1990 and later is new(ish) and everything before that is old. I imagine if you were born in the 2010s, even 90s movies feel very old.
Yes.
And I was old enough to remember going to the movies in 1995.
Not by myself, but dad took us to see some.
The mask came out in 95 I believe
Oh yeah. For movies, new only lasts like 5-10 years, then it’s old.
In 1995 most would probably consider Star Wars an old movie. I think most would consider Jurassic Park to be an old movie now.
Yesterday I re-watched Copycat. Part of the suspense fell on the main character not having a cell phone and the would-be killer cutting the land line.
It felt… weird.
And yes, it was old 😢
Colin Farrell in Phone Booth perfectly captured that early 2000’s feeling of where we were, technologically.
1998’s You’ve Got Mail does, too.
Shoot him in the leg. He’ll drop his gun. Works every time.
Based on when I was young, I basically thought of anything from before I was born as “old”. Not consciously, just that everything from “my” decade seemed modern, and everything else was old.
Even now, movies from 20+ years ago look old, even though I remember them being super new when they came out. The Matrix had aged pretty well, but it defintely looks old. I thought LOTR was timeless, but I rewatched it recently and did start to feel it was showing it’s age (but none the worse for it!).
